seanessay.com In my field of “community disabilities,” I once attended an afternoon workshop on “How to Pick a Candidate” for a rehabilitation team. Mostly we learned to look at our existing team, and then hire someone who would offer complementary skills. At the end, as we were winding down, we talked of hiring practises that […]
Jung and Sue, while I Have a Life too
“That tree” had lush branches of green needles sweeping down. “I don’t want to strike a match,” Jung said, “but we should be able to feel around well enough to sleep under those branches, the ground around a tree is always clear, the branches truly add warmth—actually, you’re smaller than I, you might fit the […]
From Friday Free Fall Writing
prompt- desperate gamble There are calculated risks where, for good or ill, you can recover and go on. But a gamble is a binary proposition. It works, or you lose all. Oh, let’s not go there. In our civilized life, a gamble is figurative, really, not the end of the world if you lose. But […]
Jung and Sue Face the Future
Jung and Sue sat silent in the still darkness. Jung said at last, “If we are to get a message to the king, show him Hardspear’s ring, then we can’t travel openly… We can’t stay at any inn. Can’t use public transport. It will be rough. Doable, but rough… I can do it alone, but […]
“I’ve got nothin’!”
seanessay.com A lady at my local club, of Toastmasters International, told me something once. This when every speech and meeting role is evaluated. “I like how, if you don’t have anything to say, then you go, “I’ve got nothin’!” Or was she talking about our mass evaluations? I certainly won’t talk if everything relevant has […]
Social Media Obscures like Pond Scum
seanessay.com I often think of social media in the “long form.” For example, the stories that caused Europeans to burn cell towers, or the villagers in India to kill strangers, including a government man who had been sent to tell them not to kill, or, in America, causing a man to take a rifle into […]